Blog posts are not blogs, people
Sorry, rant coming…
Unless someone held a meeting without me, BLOGS = SITES. On these websites we call blogs, we make blog posts, blog entries, post stories, log posts, ramble, scribble, or just about anything….
We do not, however, publish blogs on our blogs. I make this point today b/c of the Office Pirates launch, brought to us by TimeWarner. On the shiny new Office Pirates site, individual blog posts are referred to as ‘Today’s Blog’, and the archive of old posts is called All Blogs.
See where this starts to get confusing?
To the Office Pirates team at TimeWarner…I like what you’re trying to do with the site. I always wondered what would happen if Something Awful relaunched on a million-dollar budget. But in your attempts to cash in on some blogging cool, can you at least try to follow the existing lexicon? Let’s try not to complicate this already crazy world of blogging, RSS, podcasting, vodcasting, vlogging, moblogging, etc. any further.
Makes me think somebody needs a Blogging 101 session from their corporate cousin Calacanis.
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on February 22, 2006 at 9:06 pm jim hanas wrote:
You’ve got to blame MySpace for this — and credit TW with cleverly following MySpace usage. The word “blog” is used to refer to individual blog posts throughout the MySpace interface. Which means it cannot be stopped, no matter how loathesome it may be.
on February 22, 2006 at 10:01 pm Kyle wrote:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn you MySpace. Damn you Tom!
on February 22, 2006 at 10:05 pm Natalie wrote:
I’m just going to say I hate myspace, thats all… lol
on February 23, 2006 at 11:20 am sac wrote:
This is important work you are doing.
on February 23, 2006 at 6:52 pm Peeved Michelle wrote:
I just had the same conversation with an editor at work. I made him repeat, “One blog, many posts,” several times until he got it.
on February 27, 2006 at 9:14 pm jeff wrote:
Why start worrying about the lexicon now? It wasn’t too long ago that “streaming audio” worked just fine. Now we have yuppified that up with “podcasting.”
on March 7, 2006 at 1:42 am faeriebell wrote:
I’m glad I’m not the only one that is driven insane by this! I hate MySpace’s ‘post new blog’ so much, grr. I’ve blogged about this too.. real bloggers do NOT equate “blog” with a single blog post, damnit!
on April 11, 2006 at 11:56 pm Red Streetman wrote:
Interesting post, um, I mean blog. Found this site from all the myspace bashing. Well, I hate it too. For a mucho improved version check out http://www.IloveMyselfSpace.com
on April 23, 2006 at 1:12 pm Tomas wrote:
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